r/hackernews is a subreddit with 101k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses hate, worst, ai, ask hn, and struggling.
A mirror of the front page of Hacker News.
Popular Themes in r/hackernews
#1
News
: "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days"
8 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app"
3 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models"
1 post
#6
Opportunities
: "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/hackernews
#1
Hate
17 posts
#2
Worst
13 posts
#3
Ai
: "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving Ai agent commands across 40k game runs"
11 posts
#4
Ask Hn
10 posts
#5
Struggling
10 posts
#6
Programming
8 posts
#7
Tired
7 posts
#8
New
6 posts
#9
Annoying
6 posts
#10
Job
5 posts
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Last updated: August 13, 2026